OpenAI has signed a new partnership with Amazon Web Services to distribute its AI models to U.S. defense and civilian government agencies, including through AWS GovCloud and classified regions, expanding its federal footprint amid Anthropic's Pentagon fallout.
Amazon Web Services suffered a 13-hour outage in December after its agentic AI coding tool Kiro autonomously deleted and recreated a customer-facing environment. Amazon attributes the incident to user error, not AI autonomy.
Amazon reveals unprecedented $200 billion capital expenditure plan for 2026, primarily targeting AI infrastructure and data centers, marking a 50% increase from 2025.
AI search startup Perplexity expands beyond AWS with three-year $750M Microsoft Azure deal, gaining access to Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI models.
AWS data center in Dublin provides 100% of heating for university campus through innovative waste heat recovery, demonstrating sustainable AI infrastructure solutions.
